I'm running a web app in a FreeBSD jail.
Nginx and PHP are configured as user:group www:www.
I have a chrooted SFTP user who also is in the group www. (SFTPuser:www)
My goal is that the files that I ...

I am doing egress logging on my server using IPTABLES with the following line which is supposed to provide UID information on all traffic that is logged:
-A OUTPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "IPTABLES(O): " ...

Trying to repair/replace a system from a failed backup.
/etc is gone, trying to recover that, but in the meantime I need to work on a plan B.
/home remains with UID and GID and all of the important ...

We had an LDAP server which had our own groups and usernames on.
Now we are moving to a centrally managed LDAP server. The users now have a different username but still have a home folder mapped to ...

I have set up a hadoop 1.2.1 environment on centos 6. I also use nfs-proxy that mount ndfs to local file system so that I can access the files inside hdfs locally. It works perfectly until today, I ...

Currently my organization has in it's linux configuration two accounts with a UID of 0 - Root and Root2. If we were to set a failed login attempts setting for the Root2 account, and the account were ...

I'm having trouble authenticating services using uid for authentication, which I thought was the standard method for authentication on the user. So basically, my users are added in ldap like this:
# ...

I have a django project, which I am moving from the dev-server to apache. I have managed to get it server with mod_wsgi, but it runs as apache. Mod_wsgi documentation says, that if apache is run as ...

One of the sys admins accidentally moved aside /etc/passwd... doh!
Restoring the file from backup doesn't work... it errors out because root user does not exist.
I've got NIS running at this site and ...

I'd like to know how to change my effective uid
mike628@NASBD122F:/etc$ id -G
1000 0 121
I belong to these groups, but I cant do anything as root, when things are owned by root:root
and can someone ...

is there a way to tell the Windows DHCP-Client not to send along this useless UID parameter with its DHCP requests?
Thing is: We have dual boot machines (Windows and Linux). When Windows gets started ...

Say I have a user with UID 500 on a linux machine for administration purposes. This machine is a backup repository for other *nix machines.
I need the user 500 to access the files in the backups, but ...

I have a system where users upload wsgi applications and we serve them using apache/mod_wsgi. For scaling reasons, we're simply using the WSGIDaemonProcess directive and setting them to dynamically ...

The situation is an nfs4 server and client using rpc.idmapd to map ids. The id mapping is working on the client for existing files served up from the server.
On the server:
[root@server ~]# id user1
...

We currently have LDAP servers in Dev env. and staging/prod env. Both are not coupled and accounts are created manually. So the uids are same but the uidNumber and gidNumber are different across these ...

I have several CentOS 4 machines that I decided to have authenticate against a Win2008 DC via LDAPS, so when an Active Directory user logs in with his credentials on a server, it creates the user's ...